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Doña Lupeng, the mother, and Elisa Allen are three interesting women created by the minds of their respective writers. Brought to existence by pen, these three women give us a glimpse of their lives in the different conditions they’re situated in. They imply a somewhat indirect new code of conduct for today’s women. Nick Joaquin’s “The Summer Solstice”, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”, and John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” challenge us to understand the meaning behind them and to give importance to the female protagonists. “The Summer Solstice” by Nick Joaquin introduces the main character, Doña Lupeng, in the Spanish colonial period. Doña Lupeng starts out as the typical woman of her time. Typical, as in being submissive and ignorant. Nick Joaquin uses the Christian traditions together with the pagans’, to give way to Doña Lupeng’s transition. He creates Guido, a humorous (to me) and absurd (to Doña Lupeng) man. He seems absurd to Doña Lupeng because his ideas about women are in contrast to what she knows. In Guido, she realizes that women are to be adored as Guido states, “They do not talk to women, they pray to them – as men did in the dawn of the world.” In her subconscious min